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the application of the Rating and
Valuation (Apportionment) Act, 1928, to lands and heritages in which no persons are employed, to net and cruive salmon fishings and to minerals let but unworked; to grant relief from rates in the case of the lands and heritages in Scotland to which that Act applies; to discontinue grants from the Exchequer for certain purposes in Scotland and to provide other grants in lieu thereof; and for purposes consequential on the matters aforesaid.
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population) members of the town council to the county council. The rest of the county was divided into electoral divisions (consisting of landward parishes) and small burghs, each returning single members. The first elections to the reconstituted county councils took place in
November and December 1929.
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An Act to transfer to county councils and to the town councils of certain burghs in
Scotland functions of existing local authorities relating to poor relief, lunacy and mental deficiency, education, public health, and other matters; to amend the law relating to local government in Scotland; to extend
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With the redistribution of powers between counties, large burghs and small burghs, the method of electing the county council was changed. The council was to be partly directly elected and partly chosen by the town councils of large burghs. Each large burgh was to nominate one (or more depending on
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Councillors were directly elected for the landward part of each county (the area outside any burghs), whilst councillors for the burghs were co-opted by the town councils. A councillor co-opted for a burgh was not allowed to vote on matters relating to functions that the county council did not
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were to be combined. The counties were to continue to exist, with individual county councils being elected, but they were to form a joint county council. The joint council was, however, permitted to delegate functions to either of the individual county councils.
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by 1 February 1930, dividing the landward part of the county into districts. The original bill had not included district councils, with the county council assuming all powers outside burghs. The intermediate level of administration was introduced following
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275:. The commissioners' remaining powers were to form part of a standing joint committee which acted as the police authority for the county. The 1929 Act dissolved the standing committees and the commissioners ceased to exist.
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Each district was to consist of one or more electoral divisions used for electing county councillors. The scheme specified the number of elected councillors. The county councillors elected for the division were to be
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system, which had largely been administered by the parish councils. Their responsibilities in this area – now known as "Public
Assistance" – passed to the county councils, large burghs and counties of cities.
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The county and city education authorities that had been formed in 1919 were also abolished, with their functions and powers passing to the counties and counties of cities.
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Following the reorganisations of 1929 and 1930 the different tiers of
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were dissolved. Their responsibilities regarding poor law passed to the county council, other powers passing to the new district councils.
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Where any of the merging towns was a royal burgh this status was to be continued in the united burgh. The four royal burghs that were
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unless the joint county council so directed. In the event, a district council was formed for the landward part of
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had been established for each county in 1667, but had lost most of their powers to the county councils formed in 1890 under the
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members of the district council. The first elections of district councillors took place on 8 April 1930.
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Where the burgh had a population of 50,000 or more, or had a separate police force in existence.
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The Act united a number of adjacent burghs under a single town council (listed in
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county council performed the functions of a district council.
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756:Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1929, S.8
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149:Local Taxation Account (Scotland) Act 1898
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656:"Amending The Bill".
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823:Categories
583:References
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463:ex officio
457:pressure.
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384:Bonnyrigg
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362:Kilrenny
316:Aberdeen
257:Poor Law
230:Unionist
219:poor law
82:Scotland
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328:Glasgow
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